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Omatochi CEO Deka Dike Named EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2025 Bay Area Award Winner
June 16, 2025

Congratulations to Alliance member, Deka Dike, CEO of Omatochi, on being named a 2025 Entrepreneur Of The Year® Bay Area Award Winner by Ernst & Young LLP.

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Serve Robotics CEO Ali Kashani Named EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2025 Bay Area Award Winner
June 16, 2025

Congratulations to Alliance member, Ali Kashani, Co-Founder and CEO of Serve Robotics, a leading autonomous sidewalk delivery company, on being named a 2025 Entrepreneur Of The Year® Bay Area Award Winner by Ernst & Young LLP.

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Sakuu Wins Fast Company’s 2025 World Changing Ideas Award
June 12, 2025

Sakuu®, a leading provider of commercial-scale equipment and technologies to the battery manufacturing industry, has been recognized as a winner in Fast Company’s 2025 World Changing Ideas Awards for its Kavian dry electrode printing process. The annual awards program honors bold and transformative efforts designed to make the world safer, cleaner, more sustainable, and more equitable.  Alliance member Arwed Niestroj is the SVP, Customer Success at Sakuu.

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MyLand Launches Initiative to Support Water Conservation Across Arizona Farms
June 11, 2025

MyLand, a leading innovator in soil health, announced the launch of a major initiative to help Arizona farmers conserve water and improve soil performance.   MyLand is led by Alliance member Dane Hague.

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Universal Technical Institute Celebrates 60 Years of Training America’s Workforce
May 29, 2025

Universal Technical Institute, Inc. (NYSE: UTI), a leading workforce education provider for transportation, skilled technicians, electrical, energy and healthcare, is marking 60 years of training America's workforce in 2025. The company's CEO and Alliance member, Jerome Grant, and his executive leadership team recently honored the occasion by ringing The Opening Bell of The New York Stock Exchange.

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FormFactor Named #1 Global Supplier in Test Subsystems and Focused Chip Making Equipment
May 27, 2025

Congratulations to Alliance member Mike Slessor and FormFactor on being named the #1 global supplier in both the Test Subsystems and Focused Chip Making Equipment categories in TechInsights' 2025 global semiconductor industry customer satisfaction survey.

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BreachRx Closes $15M Series A Funding
May 19, 2025

BreachRx, provider of the first intelligent incident response platform designed for the entire enterprise, announced the closing of an oversubscribed $15 million Series A funding round led by Ballistic Ventures, with participation from SYN Ventures, Overline, and Silver Buckshot Ventures.   Alliance member Andy Lunsford is the CEO and co-founder at BreachRx.

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Department of Health Care Services Awards More Than $77M to Alameda Health System for Expansion of Behavioral Health Care
May 16, 2025

Alameda Health System (AHS) has been awarded more than $77 million from the California Department of Health Care Services’ (DHCS) Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program (BHCIP), funded through Proposition 1.  Alliance member James Jackson is the CEO of Alameda Health System.

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Fortress Solutions Partners with Airspan on $42.7 Million NTIA NOFO 2 Grant Award
April 21, 2025

Fortress Solutions, a global contributor in telecom and technology services, partnered with Airspan Networks in support of a $42.7 million grant awarded under the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)’s Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund (PWSCIF) NOFO 2.  Alliance member John Shelnutt is the CEO of Fortress Solutions.

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Monarch Tractor Partners with Dairy Farmers of America for Autonomous Feed Pushing
April 17, 2025

Monarch Tractor announced that it has partnered with Dairy Farmers of America, or DFA, to provide savings for DFA farmer-owners.  Monarch Tractor is led by Alliance member Praveen Penmetsa.

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RTI Earns 2025 Great Place To Work Certification in the US and Spain
April 15, 2025

Congratulations to Alliance member Stan Schneider and Real-Time Innovations on being certified by Great Place To Work for the seventh year in a row. This award is based entirely on what current employees say about their experience working at RTI. 

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Serve Robotics Saddles Up for Autonomous Delivery in Dallas-Fort Worth Via Uber Eats
April 03, 2025

 Serve Robotics (Nasdaq: SERV), a leading autonomous sidewalk delivery company, announced the launch of its service in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area.  Alliance member Ali Kashani is the CEO and co-founder of Serve Robotics.

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Turn Biotechnologies Acquires ARMMs Vesicular Technology
March 26, 2025

Turn Biotechnologies, a pioneer in epigenetic reprogramming, announced the acquisition of groundbreaking ARMMs (ARRDC1 Mediated Microvesicles) technology to broadly expand the number of organs, tissues, and cells that can be safely and precisely treated with the company's epigenetic therapies.  Turn Biotechnologies is led by Alliance member Anja Krammer.

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Nozomi Networks Named to Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies 2025 List
March 18, 2025

Congratulations to Edgard Capdevielle and Nozomi Networks on being named to Fast Company's 2025 list of the world's most innovative companies.

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MyLand Announces $4.8M Program to Enhance Soil Health in Washington State
February 20, 2025

MyLand, a leading innovator in soil health, announced a new $4.8 million dollar opportunity in Washington State to enhance soil health for farmers.   MyLand is led by Alliance member Dane Hague.

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The Presidio: Open, Welcoming, and Thriving
February 20, 2025

For nearly three decades, the Presidio Trust, led by Alliance member Rich Rusnack, Chief Business Officer, has successfully transformed a historic Army post into one of the country’s most visited national park sites. Through an innovative public-private partnership, the Trust carefully invests every dollar earned from leasing buildings and operating businesses directly back into the park. This ensures the preservation of historic landmarks, the enhancement of military memorials, and the ongoing maintenance of the park’s infrastructure—without relying on taxpayer funds.

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SpotDraft Secures $54 Million To Lead AI Contract Lifecycle Management
February 12, 2025

SpotDraft, the CLM platform that helps in-house legal teams manage their contract ecosystems, has raised $54 million in Series B funding.  Alliance member Akshay Verma, legal industry veteran, ex-Meta and Coinbase is the  Chief Operating Officer for SpotDraft.

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Kumiai and Valent U.S.A. Partner to Develop Effeeda Herbicides
February 11, 2025

Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. and Valent U.S.A. have signed an exclusive agreement to jointly develop Effeeda for rice in the United States, bringing new technology designed to manage problematic, resistant weeds affecting rice producers.  Alliance member Matt Plitt is the president and CEO of Valent U.S.A.

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Arzeda Awarded DARPA Funding to Advance AI-Driven Protein Design for National Security
January 23, 2025

Arzeda, the industry-leading Protein Design Company™, announced it has been selected for an award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Biological Technologies Office (BTO) under its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Biotechnology (AI BTO) initiative.  Alliance member Alexandre Zanghellini is the Co-founder and CEO of Arzeda. 

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Monarch Tractor Recognized in Global Cleantech 100 List
January 20, 2025

Congratulations to Alliance member Praveen Penmetsa and Monarch Tractor, the manufacturer of the world’s first electric tractor, on making the list of cleantech companies providing important contributions to sustainable innovation for the second year in a row.

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